10,000 words/merit. Ooft.
I grabbed some stats for the dirty turds who participated in the last few pages of this thread, [update] counting only posts created since the introduction of the merit system, and merits earned on those posts:
UserName |WordCount|Merits|WordsPerMerit|
-----------------|---------|------|-------------|
TheNewAnon135246 | 38740| 793| 49|
Foxpup | 36273| 693| 52|
TMAN | 109224| 1039| 105|
suchmoon | 398738| 3090| 129|
Lauda | 143910| 873| 165|
xtraelv | 221501| 1333| 166|
o_e_l_e_o | 477731| 2842| 168|
nutildah | 318849| 1407| 227|
LoyceV | 2299963| 3873| 594|
cryptohunter | 411775| 156| 2640|
The-One-Above-All| 241298| 24| 10054|
Obviously LoyceV's numbers are skewed by the massive data dumps he's posting.